itey: I mean, the 6pm news as it is is pretty damn terrible, most of the 'national' news stories are terrible.

What do you mean? a) There isn't enough interesting stuff happening in NZ to create newsb) The news is all bad news c) The news isn't reported welld) YOU don't find the news "entertaining"e) All of the above!

TV in Raro is classic, those home made ads are great. Don't forget the one channel, that's not even on 24 hours.They do show One News there too, pretty much live. Also there is still live sport on free to air.

Surely it would be in the interests of Sky to allow their STB's to able to receive FTA channels as well as Sky although I doubt that this would be possible by a software upgrade alone. What do you guys think?

Well that is dumb. Means you have to have two decoders to get all the channel coming off 1 satellite. Also, if you had Sky Multiroom as well would the LNB's on the Sky satellites be able to feed 3+ decoders or would I have to have an array of dishes on my roof depending on how many decoders I have in the house?